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A review by leelulah
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant by Andrea Dworkin
3.0
This book definitely changed my outlook on Dworkin. I had no idea what she endured, and although I wasn't likely to espouse the classic arguments against her, I had given up on the angry tone of Right Wing Women, thinking she wasn't for me. Now, I don't agree with her in all she has said, but had she dug a bit deeper, probably there'd have been something interesting coming up.
Her life is surely very sad and one gets to understand, as she promises, why does she think the way she does. Her love of music, her academic interests, her disenchanment with the left, her failed marriage, they're all a part of this person we made ourselves a caricature of, because we're scared of the words "radical feminist".
I still disagree with the core tenets of her political beliefs (abortion as pro-woman, namely; or her antiprison crusade), but there is some honesty in her breaking away from pacifism and the need of women to stand up against what's being done to them.
The parts that put me off had to do with her lack of care for policemen, but I guess those are basic leftist points. If you can see brutalized women as human, sure you can see brutalized men as such too.
Her life is surely very sad and one gets to understand, as she promises, why does she think the way she does. Her love of music, her academic interests, her disenchanment with the left, her failed marriage, they're all a part of this person we made ourselves a caricature of, because we're scared of the words "radical feminist".
I still disagree with the core tenets of her political beliefs (abortion as pro-woman, namely; or her antiprison crusade), but there is some honesty in her breaking away from pacifism and the need of women to stand up against what's being done to them.
The parts that put me off had to do with her lack of care for policemen, but I guess those are basic leftist points. If you can see brutalized women as human, sure you can see brutalized men as such too.